Hitler SS/Tampax – E.P. 7″

Legendary split with Italy’s Hitler SS and Tampax. Not worth the amount it goes for if you ask me and a proof that rare doesn´t always equals quality. I got mine for free by a collector years ago and decided to keep it. Slave by Hitler SS is GOOD and the vocals reminds me of Vibrators V2 era. Naked and Punk Is Dead No Solution bores me to death. Complete crap. A funny thing is that they claimed to be former members of London SS ha ha. Then we have Tampax. And yes UFO Dictator, the most talked about song on this split, is good for 2 minutes then it’s not funny anymore. Tampax(In The Cunt) is a great song title too bad the song don’t live up to it’s name. So why post a record that I’m not that fond of? Cause it’s regarded as a classic and now you know what not to spend your money on.

The TAMPAX 7″ is as shitty as this split. Thanks for posting it, Peter – I was beginning to have second thoughts. “Maybe I should have kept Hitler SS / Tampax and the cursing 7” by Tampax – now I know tht indeed these are the most desposable records from the italian scene and that’s why I soldboth many moons ago (like the “Gret komplotto Pordenone” sampler).

Too long indeed, but “UFO Dictator” is awesome for a spell. I don’t speak wop and am thus always pleasantly confused by what the band is saying. “UFO” in the English sense, as in spacecrafts?

After she had visited Jay, my mom came home to find me fiddling with her internet radio machine. I might have had my cock out–I can’t remember. But “UFO Dictator” came on, I turned it up, and when the trebly guitar “solo” started, my mom ducked as if a piece of shrapnel was about to penetrate her head. I thought this was nice and amusing–why did I ever leave home a year go?

A copy with NO hand-writings and stuff on the side of the HITLERSS split-7″ e.p. sleeve- that´s cool and is not so common I think.
Their recent retrospective LP “Skating With Elvis” (great packaging,btw!) shows it was a good move to only release one 7″,as a whole album is kinda bit too much for me to swallow…
These Italians (and RANCID-X) manage to sing in English but it turns out as if it was sung in nonsense,dadaistic Italian ,due to the craziness of esp. the HITLERSS vocalizer.
“Tampax In The Cunt” is definitely my pick of this record.
TAMPAX “Let It Shit” (brown vinyl,of course) LP is unlistenable,like Erich said (the sleeve is a pisstake on the one of the BEATLES and you should see that SNOW-WHITE excrement on that album).This and their “Sorry,Not Tonight” Lp,that were both recorded/released much later, are the only TAMPAX albums I know of.The latter album has great artwork:
a cunt closed with a clothes-peg, saying “Sorry,Not Tonight”…haha

I have a Hitler SS cd called Bordeone’s Guys (or something like that) that’s about as interesting to me as this EP — which is to say, not very. I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I think that this split (along with the Opus single) is immensely overrated. If it wasn’t rare I don’t think nearly as many people would care. A truly terrible EP if you ask me. Good for a laugh, then just annoying.

Sorry for my bad english but this copy you posted is a bootleg, there no exist copies without stamps or signs by the bands, im sure of that, i live nearly the drummer and i have see about 500 copies of the 7, all with stamps, signs ecc…. In my opinion the best and rare punk ita 7 is the Mittageisen 1979 single titled Hardcore and press in 200 copies, but Gaznevada and Kandeggina gang rules too…. Ciao

Facts: the split has been recently bootlegged, and the cover has no marks. There are a few original copies without marks (I own one and as soon as I got it, I traded the other copy – perfectly colored – for the Mittageisen ep, supposedly done in 100 copies).
I realize that for some of you the split might be overrated, for an Italian it has an historical value which goes beyond the mere music. Furthermore they were ahead of their times and the fake Portobello gig (with paper instruments) was pure genious. On stage Tampax were shocking, their later recs were unfortunately more leaned to the shock than to the music. The split cannot be defined a novelty rec, no way.
Musicwise I judge the Rancid X 45 Intoxication the best Italian old punk song while the lp though not bad seems made of outtakes of the Stones it’s only rock’n’roll lp.